Forum controller thread safety and tree safety
This branch solves the concurrent forum issues by code restructure and refactoring.
Closes#556Closes#552
See merge request !262
Like other recursive operations on the dependency graph, this is
not done in a single transaction to prevent an attacker from creating
arbitrary large transactions.
So at startup, the `ValidationManager` finds and resumes any
unfinished operations, by looking for shared messages with unshared
dependencies.
Comments and reblogs need to depend on the post they refer to.
Since message dependencies are limited to one group,
the post and also the comments need to be wrapped
when commented on or reblogged to another blog.
For this reason, in addition to comments, two new wrapping message types
are introduced. They retain all data of the original messages and allow
for reconstruction and signature verification.
This commit breaks backwards compatibility with old blog posts.
It removes the content type, title and parent ID from the post
message structure.
Database queries for metadata only returned it for messages that were delivered already.
However, there are cases (e.g. a pending message needs to be delivered) where
the validator needs to retrieve the metadata from the database.
For these cases, a special database query has been introduced.
The forum UI depended on sync layer events such as MessageStateChangedEvent.
Now, the forum client broadcasts its own high-level event (`ForumPostReceivedEvent`)
with the information the UI needs (`ForumPostHeader`).
Closes#310
Torsten Grote
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Ernir Erlingsson
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